Improving your site ranking on Alexa
May 23rd, 2007 by Steve McGrath
In a "old" post(Feb. 26, 2007), So, you want to make money on the Internet, I wrote about looking at your Alexa Rank. Even if it's far from perfect(more later), advertisers, ReviewMe! type sites.... will use it with other variables to calculate your worth and pay you accordingly. At the time of the old post, my Alexa Rank was 2,7 Millions for McGrath Info Solution and now it's 1,33 Million(i2mfan.com was 2.9M vs 1.17M now).
How did I do that
To make this possible, I:
- Submitted MIS Info Video (free) on many freeware/shareware sites thus creating many good links
- Change my signature in forums to point to both sites
- Participated in blogs that I liked
- Added a link button in MIS Info Video to go directly to the blog
- Allowed comments in my post thus increasing the community/traffic
- Added the Alexa widget showing my rank
- Using the Alexa Toolbar (Internet Explorer) and SearchStatus (Firefox)
With the last Google PageRank update(April), this blog and McGrath Info Solution are now PR3 sites(i2mfan is PR2)
Dosh Dosh had 20 tips on improving your Alexa rank.
Back to Alexa
One of the problem with Alexa is that unless visitors use the free Alexa Toolbar(Internet Explorer only) or SearchStatus(Firefox, I use it and it's not from Alexa), the visits are not counted. I added the Alexa widget to show my rank of my sites in an effort to spread the word about them. Some even say that adding the widget may improve your rank quickly. I will see if it's true(update after 1-2 week: M.I.S. was 1,84 Million before the widget and i2mfan.com was 2.4M).
Another problem is that your buddy could just refresh your site page and this will count.
So, if you like a site, please install any of these free toolbar and this will help them in return to pay for the site cost by getting an higher return from advertisers.
Note: The widget and the Alexa site were not in sync while writing this post. i2mfan.com was still at 2.4M on the widget but was 1.17M on the Alexa site.
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Related post:
- I have been using the Alexa Toolbar (Internet Explorer) and SearchStatus (Firefox) for a few months. But now, an official Alexa Toolbar for Firefox called Sparky is now available.
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This is important for site owners because it
- Like many shareware and freeware authors, I build my site in HTML(simple template) and submitted MIS Info Video(free) to a few big sites like download.com and tucows.com. It's later that I figured that I was not
- First, Google bought Blogger.com and recently FeedBurner. Now, what they lack is a paid for blogging service. If they do, they will be able to undercut every one and bring there current catalog of advertisers. But which one should they
- I sure by now that many of you noticed the bug with the ranking on Technorati. Every blogger will post about it. But unlike Court, Ades or even the Evil master himself John Chow, I will go a step further.
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- John Chow has troubles with his Technorati that affect is ranking on ReviewME thus possible earnings. I was surprise to see on how high you have to get on Technorati to the have the 5 stars on ReviewME. Btw, he
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Great tip. I’m going to try it!
The note about the sync remains: the widget is not in sync with the Alexa site. I was 700K(widget) in the last few days but it what updated(467K) only today. The other site should be 983K.
Anything over 100K is easy to game. Let me know when you figure out how to game Alexa to keep yourself under 50K with a low level of traffic.
The main goal is to get a better ranking that is not in the 2-3 millions.
Congrats for you because you are below 100K
Do you mean that you have a low level? How did you do that then?
I don’t game Alexa, it’s too much work and not enough benefit. Once you break the 100K area there is no big benefit until you break 10K.
5 people visiting your site every day with an Alexa-enabled browser is enough to put you in the Top 100K, progressing below that level is considerably harder.
Ok, I see. You need real traffic like John Chow.
Yes, real traffic is preffered
HMTKSteve:
When you say “game”, what more precisely do you mean? Do you mean writing a script to pass a fake set of info to the alexa servers?